Rum tale of replication

Database Replication: a Tale of Research across Communities

Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achieving elasticity at the database layer. In database replication, the biggest challenge lies in the trade-off between performance and consistency. A decade ago, performance could only be achieved through lazy replication at...

Illuminating DNA replication during Drosophila development using TALE-lights

phase is a key determinant of timing and is required for cycle 14 MBT events [7]. In the early, fast S phases, all of the DNA sequences replicate at the same time without exhibiting the typical eukaryotic subdivision in which euchromatin replicates early and heterochromatin replicates late. As the S phase incrementally increases in duration during cycles 12 and 13, there is a slight delay in th...

An Architectural Tale of the Two Cities

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

Designing Access Methods: The RUM Conjecture

The database research community has been building methods to store, access, and update data for more than four decades. Throughout the evolution of the structures and techniques used to access data, access methods adapt to the ever changing hardware and workload requirements. Today, even small changes in the workload or the hardware lead to a redesign of access methods. The need for new designs...

Digital Necrosis: A Hoarder’s Tale